A sign that cracked me up when I first saw it on post.
Coming from AIT where we constantly called cadence this is a big change.
Last night I watched a cheesy movie "Vampires Suck". If you're a fan or have ever seen the Twilight series, it's parody of that along with a few True Blood and Vampire Diaries jokes thrown in. It's super cheesy and corny, but it did make me laugh a few times. Not a movie I would keep in my collection, but something I had been wanting to see for a while.
Today I woke up at 6:45 to give myself time to get ready and use my new little 4-cup coffee maker I purchased at the PX. I was able to brew a tiny pot of "Seattle's Best" coffee and have a cup before work at 8:00 AM! The only thing missing is sugar…and also a desk lamp. My roommate is working the later shift of the half days, so he sleeps in. I'm always running into things and dropping things because I can't see much of anything in the morning. I turn on my laptop screen, but it only does so much.
Work today was pretty boring, you can tell the holidays are upon us. As long as North Korea does not attack or do anything stupid I think the next couple of weeks will be very slow and boring at work. Today I cleaned the office refrigerator and microwave. After that our sergeant showed everyone Skillport, a way to earn promotion points by doing classes online. Most items in Skillport give you 1 promotion point for every 5 hours of course that you take. Each course shows how many “hours” it’s worth - depending on how well you know the subject you can finish them faster than the time stated. I was already very familiar with it because we had to use it and complete some I.T. courses while in AIT. Our sergeant wants everyone to be doing either online school or Skillport when we have downtime in order to better ourselves and advance our careers in the army. The only problem is that I still cannot get on the system here with my CAC card, I'm not setup yet. The lady that usually does it has been on emergency leave. I did turn all my paperwork for it today though because we found out there is another sergeant who can get me in the system. We'll see how long it takes, it will be nice to be able to get something done while at the office. Today all I did (besides the cleaning) was play a lot of solitaire and Plants vs Zombies on my iPhone.
We then had PT again after our half day at work. We went to the gym and played basketball. I was still pretty sore from yesterday, but we ended up playing a lot of half court games because we only had 8 people. We did play a few full court games when a few extra people showed up. It was a good workout, but not too much. I also wore my "tan tighties" which prevented yesterday's injuries. I impressed some of the guys from my office with my shot and also dunking a couple of times between games. I didn't know I had it in me still!
I got a call from University of Phoenix after work as well, I'll have another call with them in a couple of days. After that I think I'll start classes again on January 11th. I can't wait to get started again so I can finally get my degree! I decided to do a little Skillport as well while at home. I'm going to try and do an hour or so each night just so I can start racking up some hours. Our sergeant wants to see some progress. We can do pretty much anything, so I'm starting out with something I've wanted to brush up on for a while. I did the first lesson of Rosetta Stone: German. The army offers this language learning application free to all it's soldiers and it counts as promotion points as well. Our two Korean specialists were doing the Korean version while in the office…easy points since they know the language already....easy points for me too since I’ve taken quite a bit of German back in the day.
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